X: 1
T: Suckeys Delight
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
B: Charles & Sam Thompson - "Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1765" (London, 1765, p. 8)
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K: G
|:g2f {f}e2d|efg d3|c2B {B}A2G|ABG FED|
g2f {f}e2d|efg d2c |BGB AFA|G3 [G3G,3]:|
|:B2c d2=f|e2d c2B|A2B c2e|d2c B2A|
G2A B2d|c2B A2G|FAG FED|FAG FED|
dBg ecg|dBg ecg|BGB AFA|G3 [G3G,3]:|
SUCKEY’S DELIGHT. AKA "Sukey's Delight." AKA and see "Bill of Rights (The)," "Crookshanks," “Incle and Yarico (2).” English, Country Dance Tune (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody was also entered into the Joshua Jackson music manuscript collection. Another tune with the same title (alternate spelling), "Suky's Delight", was printed by London music publisher John Johnson in his Choice Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 6 (1751; p. 10), but it is in duple time and musically unrelated to the Thompson's "Suckey's Delight."
Additional notes
Printed sources : - Knowles (A Northern Lass), 1995; p. 14. Charles and Samuel Thompson (Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1765), 1765; p. 8. Charles and Samuel Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 4), 1780; p. 92.
